The Lafayette Avenue Station is served by an almost full length mezzanine that doesn't quite cover the western ends of the platform. The mezzanine is of the split areas within fare control design so there is no crossover or under, but all station exits can be fully open at all times for the single token booth and two separate banks of turnstiles provide access at either end of the station. Towards each end of the mezzanine, closer to the exits are High Entrance and Exit turnstiles that provide a way to enter the subway with less walking than would be required to get to the turnstiles at the center of the mezzanine. This means the turnstiles get practically no use. There are many staircases up to street level from the large mezzanine with exits leading up to South Portland Avenue towards the western end of the mezzanine (not too close to the end of the station's platforms though), and on the eastern end to an unusual six-way intersection where Fulton Street crosses South Oxford Street at a bit of an angle and Hanson Place and Greene Avenue end at the intersection at quite strange angles. On the mezzanine there is well-worn but still readable black-text painted on the tiled walls at many of the exit staircases saying where they go before hanging signs became the norm. The station platforms have green name tablets and trim, with no columns on the platforms but all the columns on the mezzanine painted lime green